Word: alleys
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...power. You can feel the beat when he plays, explosions of mass and muscularity that fill up the court like blasts of boom-box rap. Short, curt hooks. BAM! Power-jams in the paint. BOOM! Or, as in Game 7 of the Portland series, a spectacular fourth-quarter alley-oop from Bryant that O'Neal pulled from the rafters of the Staples Center. Shaq came down harder than thunder, harder than a Dr. Dre track. SHAKA-LAKA-BOOM! Portland was finished...
...Small-town man buys bowling alley and chases girl of his high school dreams...
...staying-awake problem wasn't aided by the fact that the High School for Arts and Business has no windows--it being, until four years ago, a bowling alley. This was the explanation Principal Drakes gave. I knew from my own high school experiences not to pursue the logical but detention-inducing "Why don't bowling alleys have windows? Were there, maybe, strippers at this 'bowling alley...
...bloodhound. Before long he found and ticketed an illegal septic bypass. No one is safe from Gatto's by-the-book zeal. In 1990, after a late-night dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend of his father's, he followed the odor of sewage into a back alley where he spotted a septic tank overflowing into a storm drain leading to a reservoir. Gatto arrested the family friend, who paid a $10,000 fine...
...strange a choice for a biography as the thuggish, illiterate, pre-Ali heavyweight champion might be, that's not nearly so strange as Tosches' technique: a gumbo of archival minutiae, back-alley hearsay, self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence...